Since being introduced (by the Comics Curmudgeon) to the comic "strip" Pluggers, I have found scant reason to think well of it; though it clearly intends to exalt "salt-of-the-earth" types, it usually ends up backhandedly denigrating them along with the "élites" against whom they are frequently contrasted.
But when reframed as a mediæval "estates satire" and beast fable, it seems almost erudite (especially when translated into Middle English).